Postage stamps and postal history of French Sudan

1931 French Sudan Stamp
A postcard bearing a 5 centime Upper Senegal and Niger stamp with the portrait of Louis Léon César Faidherbe
French West Africa 1947 series

French Sudan (Soudan Francais) was established in the late nineteenth century and occupied roughly the same territory as modern Mali.[1]

First stamps

French colonies general issues were overprinted with the name of the colony in 1894.

The colony was renamed "Senegambia and Niger" in 1902–1904, and "Upper Senegal and Niger" in 1904–1921 due to administrative reorganizations. Ⅰn 1921, the name changed back to French Sudan.[2]

French West Africa

Various territories were joined in 1895 by the French colonial authorities in a federation known as French West Africa (AOF).

The French colonial territories in the federation issued their own postage stamps until 1943. In many cases the stamps were inscribed with the name of the federation "Afrique Occidentale Française" as well as the colony's own name. These territories included Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea (now Guinea), Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and Dahomey (now Benin).

In 1943 and 1944, stamps of Senegal and Mauritania were overprinted with new values and valid throughout French West Africa.

The first issues printed specifically for the federation were the Eboue common design type and a definitive series depicting colonial soldiers, both in 1945. A series of 1947 featured 19 scenes and people of the various colonies, then during the 1950s there were about 30 various commemoratives. The last issue inscribed "Afrique occidentale française" and "RF" was the Human Rights issue of December 1958.[3]

It was followed by a Stamp Day issue on March 21, 1959, which omitted the federation's name and was inscribed "CF" along with "Dakar-Abidjan" for use in Ivory Coast and Senegal.

See also

References and sources

References
  1. ↑ Rossiter, Stuart & John Flower. The Stamp Atlas. London: Macdonald, 1986, pp.317-319. ISBN 0-356-10862-7
  2. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20171006021255/http://www.stampworldhistory.com:80/country-profiles-2/africa/french-sudan/ Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  3. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20171219183241/http://www.stampworldhistory.com:80/country-profiles-2/africa/french-west-africa/ Retrieved 12 August 2018.
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